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Step-by-step cover letters : build a cover letter in 10 easy steps using personal branding / Evelyn U. Salvador.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Indianapolis, IN : JIST Works, c2011.Description: xiii, 226 p. ; 28 cm. + 1 CD-ROM (4 3/4 in.)ISBN:
  • 159357780X (boundin cdrom : alk. paper)
  • 9781593577803 (bound-in cd-rom : alk. paper)
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Contents:
Step 1: understand your personal brand -- Step 2: develop your unique personal brand message -- Step 3: write a compelling first paragraph -- Step 4: state your qualifications and benefits -- Step 5: summarize your key accomplishments -- Step 6: personalize your message -- Step 7: close with a statement of interest and a call to action -- Step 8: complete your cover letter draft -- Step 9: format and design your cover letter -- Step 10: review complete cover letter foundations and samples.
Summary: This companion to the groundbreaking Step By Step Resumes guide provides readers with a foolproof process for discovering their personal brand and communicating it in cover letters. It offers an overall framework to help students, job seekers, and career changers easily build outstanding cover letters that will land interviews and score job offers. The author, a professional resume writer and personal branding strategist, empowers readers to Write a compelling first paragraph; Demonstrate the value they bring; Develop and communicate their brand in their letters; Summarize their key accomplishments; Edit their letters; And compel the employer to pick up the phone and call them for interviews. A CD-ROM packaged with the book is packed with cover letter samples and templates, as well as letter-building worksheets and additional tools.
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Finally, a companion to the groundbreaking Step-by-Step Resumes workbook! Step-by-Step Cover Letters uses a foolproof system of paragraph starters and an overall framework to help readers easily build outstanding cover letters that will get interviews and job offers. Professional resume writer and personal branding strategist Evelyn Salvador leads you through the steps of writing a compelling first paragraph, showing the value you bring, developing and communicating your brand in your letter, summarizing your key accomplishments, editing your letter, and compelling the employer to pick up the phone and call you for an interview. The included CD-ROM is chock-full of cover letter samples and templates, as well as letter-building worksheets and other tools.

Includes index.

Step 1: understand your personal brand -- Step 2: develop your unique personal brand message -- Step 3: write a compelling first paragraph -- Step 4: state your qualifications and benefits -- Step 5: summarize your key accomplishments -- Step 6: personalize your message -- Step 7: close with a statement of interest and a call to action -- Step 8: complete your cover letter draft -- Step 9: format and design your cover letter -- Step 10: review complete cover letter foundations and samples.

This companion to the groundbreaking Step By Step Resumes guide provides readers with a foolproof process for discovering their personal brand and communicating it in cover letters. It offers an overall framework to help students, job seekers, and career changers easily build outstanding cover letters that will land interviews and score job offers. The author, a professional resume writer and personal branding strategist, empowers readers to Write a compelling first paragraph; Demonstrate the value they bring; Develop and communicate their brand in their letters; Summarize their key accomplishments; Edit their letters; And compel the employer to pick up the phone and call them for interviews. A CD-ROM packaged with the book is packed with cover letter samples and templates, as well as letter-building worksheets and additional tools.

System requirements: Microsoft Word version 97 and later.

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